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• Life and family background of Joel Leichty  
• How COVID19 changed Joel’s plans  
• Joel talks about how it was when he found out that he was not renewed as MVP   
• Discusses Joel’s amazing MVP experience   
• The process of getting the MVP award  
• Plans on getting back to Microsoft MVP Program  
• Recently joined the Dynamic Consulting company as Power Practice Manager  
• Talks about the new user group DynamicsCon  
• A conversation about DynamicsCon group’s focus and plans  
• Joel’s thoughts and goal about the DynamicsCon community  
• The most memorable part of being a Microsoft MVP from the year 2013-2020 

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• Meet Rami Mounla from Wellington, New Zealand talks about his life and career background 
• A conversation about how Rami started working with technology 
• Rami talks about his journey to Microsoft Business Applications 
• A discussion about Rami’s transition from On-premise based to Online or Cloud-based projects 
• Introduction to Microsoft Fastrack Migration Program 
• How effective Microsoft Fastrack Migration Program is 
• The Fastrack Migration Program methodology 
• The benefits of using the Microsoft Fastrack Migration Program 
• Criteria to be recognized as a Microsoft Fastrack Solutions Architect 
• New Zealand’s businesses reaction in making their businesses cloud enabled 
• Rami’s journey as a Solution’s Architect 
• The difference between an Enterprise Architect and a Solution Architect 
• Important non-technical skills that all aspiring solution architects must have to become successful 
• How Rami encourages or trains his team to understand, navigate and handle political projects 

Books Mentioned

Rami Mounla's Book: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook 

Resources

GitHub: https://github.com/ramimounla 

Credits

Music Credits
I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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• Meet and find out more about Sahan Wijayasekera’s life and country of origin
• What is famous about Sri Lanka – best food  
• What made Sahan decide to move to Melbourne, Australia  
• Sahan’s exciting journey into Microsoft Business Applications  
• How did Sahan learn about the MVP Program?  
• Talks about Sahan’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP  
• Things Sahan learn about being a Microsoft MVP  
• The importance of the MVP Community group  
• Recommendations to people considering becoming an MVP  
• How Sahan manages his time between family, work and being an MVP  
• An introduction to IoT   

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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• Ben Hosking talks about his life and family background
• Discussions about how Ben spends his time with his family when not working
• A discussion about Ben’s career journey
• Talks about how the COVID19 crisis affected Ben’s day to day life
• A conversation about how Ben started with technology
• A discussion about what made Ben focus on D365
• Talks about the differences between working from home versus working in an office
• Lessons learnt as a consultant working with big projects – KPMG, CapGemini, and PowerObjects
• How Ben develops his skills to keep up with technologies to become an effective Power Platform Consultant
• How Ben handle the industry shift – new projects in a different industry
• Ben’s thoughts on Microsoft Biz Apps in the next 5-10 years
• Ben shares his experience on how he was able to establish himself and be known in the market
• Talks about Ben's journey and the lessons learnt during the process to be known in the market
• Social media platform – Ben’s experience and how it helped him to where he is now

Books Mentioned

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

Credits

Music Credits
I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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• A Brief Introduction about Andrew Butenko’s origin story 
• What made Andrew move to the US and what he misses from home 
• A conversation about Andrew’s educational
• Talks about Andrew's career background 
• Talks about the software development industry in Ukraine 
• A discussion about Andrew’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• Who nominated Andrew to become an MVP? 
• How did Andrew learn about the MVP Program? 
• A discussion about the best learning tools to become a successful MVP 
• Andrew’s impression about his first MVP Summit 
• Being an MVP for 10 years
• Andrew's advice or recommendation to people who are wanting to become an MVP 
• Discusses Andrew’s involvement with PCF 
• Andrew's advice to people exploring PCF 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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• Learn more about Joe Griffin’s life, family and career background  
• Joe’s hobbies – what he does when he’s not working  
• How Joe got interested in technology  
• Discusses Microsoft Azure as his specialty  
• The things people need to learn when working with PowerApps, Power Automate or Dynamics 365 using Microsoft Azure  
• What beginners need to know about Microsoft Azure  
• What Power Platform and Dynamics 365 consultants need to know about Azure to make their Apps more effective  
• A discussion about what is Microsoft Azure, and how to use it?  
• Introduction to DevOps  
• The importance of DevOps   
• How DevOps works with Azure  
• A conversation about Microsoft Azure Service Bus  
• How does Microsoft Azure Service Bus work?   
• Find out more about Azure Data Lake  
• Talks about Azure Data Factory   
• What are PowerShell scripts  
• Why PowerShell scripts are important for maintaining Microsoft Azure, PowerApps and Dynamics  
• The fundamentals of Azure and how to get started into the platform  
• Discussions on what Power Apps builders need to know about Azure when it comes to Identity, security, permissions and resource groups  
• Talks about Azure complimentary certifications for the BizApps 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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• Learn more about Gus Gonzales life and origin
• A discussion about Gus' educational background and career background
• How Gus started working with Business Applications and his journey 
• Gus shares his thoughts about the big project he worked with 
• What made Gus decide to start his own company  
• Talks about Gus' journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP – MVP since 2012 
• Discusses Gus' career journey – from Functional Consultant, Solutions Architect to CEO 
• A conversation about the effect of the MVP Program on Gus' career 
• How MVP program helps Gus to be able to speak with events and share his ideas 
• Discussions about the benefits of being an MVP 
• How Gus handles the online sessions 
• Shares his thoughts about the effect of COVID19 on Microsoft events and conferences 
• The advantages and disadvantages of having virtual conferences 

Other Resources:

365 Training: https://365.training/Instructors/detail/gusgonzalez

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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• Meet Wim Geukens talks about his life, family, and career background  
• Talks about Wim's hobbies and he does when he is not working  
• COVID19 situation to where Wim and his family lives  
• Talks about how Wim started having an interest in technology  
• Wim's transition from a system integrator to a global ISV  
• The biggest struggle during the transition  
• Discusses how Wim cope up during this challenge   
• Marketing and global partner channels strategies  
• The main item of software they sell and the kind of industries they serve 
• Introduction to VeriPark’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)  
• How GDPR and other banking rules affect the way they do business?  
• Microsoft's role on Wim's journey  
• The Microsoft products they use for the integration  
• How they deal with the global market when it comes to doing business transactions  
• A conversation about how they offer 24/7 support in the foreign market   
• Find out more about how they protect their Intellectual property  
• Talks about software license management 
• Microsoft tools they use as part of their solution 
• Sales time frame – how long they sell their products 
• How to stay competitive in the global market  
• A discussion about IP, PII, and data residency  
• Steps to creating a successful Microsoft ISV

Other Resources

MSDyanmics World: https://msdynamicsworld.com/author/wim-geukens

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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• Talks about Tobias Fenster's Podcast 
• A conversation with Tobias’ role and responsibilities as a CTO 
• Tobias’ origin story, life and family background – what they do together during his free time 
• How COVID19 affected his lifestyle and business 
• The area where Tobias specializes in Microsoft Business Applications MVP 
• The fundamental difference being a Microsoft Business Applications MVP and AZURE category MVP 
• Talks about Tobias’ contributions to the MVP Community 
• Tobias’ journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP – how his journey started
• Who nominated Tobias and the nomination process 
• How being an MVP affected Tobias’ life? 
• Shares his thoughts about the MVP program 
• The biggest value of being an MVP 
• Difference between engaging in Azure and Business Applications of the Product Team 
• Tobias journey like across NAV and Business Applications 
• Advice and recommendations to people who are wanting to become a Microsoft MVP
• Microsoft Regional Director Program 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• A Brief Introduction about Mohammad Alkhawaja – origin story and educational background  
• Talks about Mohammad’s career journey  
• A discussion about the solution Mohammad has built for Pharmaceutical Industry.  
• How Mohammad started having an interest in technology considering his pharmaceutical background 
• How Mohammad discovered Power Platform and PowerApps  Discusses Mohammad’s journey to Power Platform  
• Mohammad talks about the system he built for the Pharmaceutical Industry – the Doctor Relationship Management.  
• The target customer for Doctor Relationship Management System Apps  
• Apps Mohammad used to create the Doctor Relationship Management System  
• The purpose and benefits of implementing the Apps Mohammad built for his organization 
• What made Mohammad decide to use Power Platform to create different solutions  
• The technologies involved in the creation of the solution  
• The first app Mohammad created that opened the doors to building more applications in the Power Platform  
• Talks about the application or solution Mohammad created  
• What does the application or solution support?  
• An introduction to Nubessys   
• A conversation about the ISV solution Mohammad built with Nubessys  
• The outcome of the ISV Solution built with Nubessys  
• The impact of the COVID19 crisis in Jordan 

Other Resources

Microsoft Power Network: https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/case-studies/nubessystems
Doctor Relationship Management: http://www.nubessys.com/drm/ 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

Support the show

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith